UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Robin Vincent of Britain as the registrar of the tribunal being set up to try those responsible for political killings in Lebanon, particularly the 2005 attack that killed former prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
In a statement released by his spokesperson, Ban announced this appointment which "reflects the steady progress being accomplished in establishing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon."
According to the spokesperson, Vincent, a veteran of numerous international court proceedings, will start his duties on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon at a date yet to be determined.
The Security Council set up the International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) in April 2005 after an earlier UN mission found that Lebanon's own inquiry into the Hariri assassination was seriously flawed and that Syria was primarily responsible for the political tensions that preceded the attack.
Hariri died in a massive car bombing in Beirut in February 2005that also took the lives of 22 others.
From 2002 to 2005, Vincent served as Registrar of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). Since then, he has served as the temporary Deputy Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and has advised on the establishment of other international tribunals, including the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
Source:Xinhua
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